On Aug 28, 2009 14:44 -0700, Jiaying Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Andreas Dilger<adilger@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > This isn't really correct, however, because i_blocks also contains > > non-data blocks (indirect/index, EA, etc) blocks, so even with small > > files with ACLs i_blocks may always be larger than ia_size >> 9, and > > for ext2/3 at least this will ALWAYS be true for files > 48kB in size. > > I see. I guess we need to use a special flag then. Or is there any > other suggestions? I also have another question related to this > problem. Why those fallocated blocks are not marked as preallocated > blocks that will then be automatically freed in ext4_release_file? Because fallocate() means "persistent allocation on disk", not "in memory preallocation". The "in memory" preallocation already happens in ext4, and it is released when the inode is cleaned up. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
